LOS ANGELES – With sights set firmly on its Silicon Valley nemesis Apple, Google launched its music service at an event in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The move into the space signals Google’s aim to challenge the mighty iTunes head-on.

The service update integrates a music section into Google’s Android Market, Google’s media hub for Android devices. Users can now purchase songs through the Android market, and can stream them wirelessly to their Android phones and tablets using the Google Music app.

In conjunction with the Market launch, Google opened its previously limited app — Music Beta — to pu...

When Motorola first launched its original, iconic Razr phone in 2004, it set the bar for thin.

Big surprise: Seven-plus years later, thin is still very much in. Eager to show its design chops haven’t withered, Motorola has brought the Razr brand back, pasting it onto an Android phone that’s beautiful, extremely slim and remarkably powerful. Sort of like a ’60s-era Twiggy, only transported to 2011 and juiced out of her gourd on Muscle Milk.

At its thickest point, the Droid Razr’s profile is no wider than a CD jewel case. T...